Method of treating oils for combustion purposes.



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FRANK BALDEMACHER. OF LOS ANGELES. CALIIEDRNIA. ASSIGNPR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH MAIER AND GEORGE ZOBELEI'N, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

METHOD or 'rREA'riuo OILS FOR COMBUSTION rvnrosns.

Application filed February 3. 1903. Serial No. 141,754.

To all whom it'may concern: y

1 Beit known that. I, Foam: Rtxmmm-iu-zu a citizen of the United States. residing at Los Angeles, in the count of Los- Angeles and State of California. have invented a new and useful Method of Treating Oils for Combustion Purposes, of which the following is a specification. I

This newly invented method embodies *arious' steps which will be specifically pointed out and claimedin the'appendet-l claim. and as a wholeconsists in first, warming the oil to increase its fluidity, \vherehyvery heavy and stitl crude oils mayfbe used with ease and economy, then introducing the armed oil into a confined space and subjecting it. to heat. and pressure. then introducing thooil into a pressure tank and allo'wing the impurities to settle therefrom. and then introducing the oil into a heated receptacle or converter where it is transformed into a vapor or: gas.

It also'includes a methodwhich consists in heating oil to a. high temperature. under pressure and maintaining a. circulation oil from one part of the circulation and introducing oil atanother part. of the (ll'(:'.lltt I'ne discharged portion of the Oil is desirahly conducted into a heated chamher for conversion into the high eomhustihle. I will now (IGSGl'llJCllHS method as the same may he carried on, h the. apparatus illusapplieation for patent.- contempt-n'aneously herewith. t erial No. HLTSP.

In the drawings Figure I is a tragnn-ntal plan of apparatus which may he employed in (.Lilfflllg out this invention, and Fig. ll is a fragmental elevation oi. the. sun-re: parts being shown in section.

In carrying out this invention the tandcold oil 1 so as.to isolate in the standipe a small portion of the oil. the stand-pipe heing open at the top: the object heing to heat the oil in the stand-pipe without heating the main body of oil. said stand-pipe serving as an auxiliary reservoir from which the oil is taken hy the pump 4 through the pipe (i. into a steam heater 7 that may he heated by exhaust steam introduced through a pipe 8 and which steam finally es apes lhrough. an exhaust pipe 9 after having heated the oil in the heater to a high temperature. 7 A, part of the heated oilis returned to the Specification of Letters Patent. Pat ed Sept. 27, 1910.

stand-pipe from the heater through the return pipe or hy-pass 3 so as to keep up a local circulation of oil and keep the oil with in the stand-pipe hot; theoil in the heater 7 is therein snhjet'ted'to hoth heat and pressure. An elastic pressure may he; applied hy connecting the oil disehargepipe 10 with. an air pressure tank 11. the oil being introduced into said iankat the lower end there of. The oil in the heater 7 and the pressure tank 11 is desirably brought, to a high tern peratnre say 200 degrees Fahrenheit;- more or less'and a high state. of fluidity, and the so me in allowed to stand in the pressure tank ltunder a desired pressure to allow tvater and other impurities to settle. the same being finally removed by means. of a-(lrawoil valve 12.. The pressure in the pressure tank 11 may be regulated by a pressure regulator 13 and a discharge valve 14 which may lead to a nozzle 15 by which the heated Oll from the pressuretank 11 is introduced desirably in a spray or vapor into a'heated receptacle 16 which may he any form of furnace or gas retort or any device or converter by which the liquid is brought into the form of a high combustible. A portion of the oil is allowed to escape past the. pressure, regulator 13 and through the pipe 3 into the limited supply any 2 close to the inlet .1? of the oil supply pipe thus to warm the il in the oii'way 2 to a desired llnidity. l ly this means very heavy and stiff crude oil may he utilized.

ly referring to the drawings, it will be een that this method of treating oils for combustion purposes consists in separating a small portion of the oil to he used from a main supply reseruoir 1 into an inlet-.17, ronunnnit-athIn li ing maintained between said inlet 17 and supply rese-n oir I; then c'ulhllh'llllg' oil From said sepaiiited portion and circulating it through the heating nwan-- consisting. in the present emlunliun-nt,

ol tluinvention. in a tank 7. and linally diriding the lie-am ot oil so circulated after the same has heen heated: one in ant-h of the divided st ream living conducted through pipe 3 in its healed condition to stand-pipe 3 and mixed nith th eparate-l p rtion 0 oil in said inlet. and the other hranrh of the stream ln-ing i'uinlllt'lt-tl to the point of sonsuinplion. A mixture of cold oil from the ingthe oilin the sytem. taking supply 1 and 1.51" o ilifrom pipe 3 enters inlet- 17, said mixture h 'ng more amamu therefore ea ier to conduct llltUtWll the conduits andw'alws ot' the pump than would he the 1 case it' the atrtl' crude oil alone were directl This elleet is indrawn into the pump. ereafied by reason ot there being room for only asmall quantity of COitloil in the anxiliary reservoir 2, so that the hot oil entering said nmall quantity greatly increases the temperature thereof. Circulation of the heated oil it dwiralily maintained hy mean of the pump -t. impurities may settle from the oil in the heater T and may be drawn otl" Irom time t0 time through the clock 18. By maintainine a eireulat?on,-tliat is by m0\'- cold oil at one part of the circulation, taking out a portion of the .hot. oil at another part of the circulation, using another portion of the hot oil for heating the cold oil, and drawingoil the settled impurities from the hot. oil, it.

becomes practicable to utilize erude oils of very impure elniraeter which are otherwise almost; valueless.

Having descrihed my invention, \vhat l i claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:-

The method of treating otlior combustion purposes which consists in providing a main body of cold oilin a suitable reservoir,

isolating a small portion of it in an open staudqupc, constitutnne an auxiliary reserroir. pumpme the oil therefron'i and HlJtPCtin it into a steam-heating chamber, heating it therein to a high temperature under pressure, leading a portion of the super-heated oil to the point. of consumption, amt returir ing the balance by means of a b v-pass or returmpipe to the. auxiliary t$tl\'t)tl' for the purpose of heating the oil in Ftlitl reservoir and setting up a. circulation of oil.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification. in the presence of two Slll atlllllllg \VIUIQSSLS, at Les Angelera in the count 0t Los Angeles. and State of- Californimthis 23rd day of January, 1903.

FRANK RADEMAGIIER.

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